Opeyemi Sowore, wife of detained politician and activist, Omoyele Sowore, has demanded an immediate release of her husband from the detention of DSS.
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) had during a midnight operation on Saturday, August 3, arrested Sowore at his hotel in Lagos, two days to the #RevolutionNow protest convened by the activist.
He was later transferred to Abuja while the secret police secured a court order to detain him for 45 days.
In an application filed at a federal high court in Abuja two weeks after his arrest, the DSS accused Sowore of conspiring with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to overthrow the government of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The DSS also alleged that he held a series of meetings with some foreign collaborators outside Nigeria, including Dubai, where millions of dollars were given to him to sponsor a widespread attack on Nigerian government with a view to violently removing Buhari.
But speaking when she featured on Democracy Now, a news programme in the US, Sowore’s wife denied meeting with any external forces, adding that her husband has never been to Dubai.
She also narrated how her husband contacted her, via text message, shortly before he was picked up.
The woman said he had been in solitary confinement since her husband’s arrest, adding that she and her children had spoken to him just twice since his arrest. (The Cable)
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